Final speaker of the evening will be journalist Arjen van Veelen of De Correspondent, who has written a book on his experiences living in in the city of St Louis in the US, where he reported on the unrest in Ferguson. After his talk, Desmond will be joined by Cody Hochstenbach, postdoctoral researcher in urban geography at the University of Amsterdam, to reflect on the changing Dutch housing market in the light of developments in America. Matthew Desmond Books 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prizewinning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. Milwaukee, one of the most segregated cities in the US, is a telling example.

Praised by former president Barack Obama, Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation and provides fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America’s most devastating problems. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab.

In his book, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows the fortunes of eight families as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Matthew Desmond (born 1979/1980) is a sociologist and the Maurice P.

What if the dominant discourse on poverty in the United States is wrong? What if the problem isn’t that poor people have bad morals, or that they lack the skills and smarts to fit in with our shiny 21st-century economy? What if the problem is that poverty is profitable? These are the questions at the heart of Evicted, Matthew Desmond’s extraordinary study of tenants in low-income housing in the de-industrialized city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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